Example sentences of "[noun] [num ord] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there I am popping my tray next to his in the unit , when he says , right out of the blue , completely unprovoked , I have n't said anything — |
| 2 | He offered the seat next to him on the console . |
| 3 | Then Prentice took the seat next to me in the corridor and I just knew the day would n't get any better whatever the weather forecast . |
| 4 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , come on in then ! ’ had reseated herself in the chair , and motioned me to take my place next to her at the desk . |
| 6 | She patted the place next to her on the lip of the stone fountain . |
| 7 | For instance , if the person next to you in the pool starts frothing and fizzing , it means that his ‘ O ’ ring has probably broken . |
| 8 | The audience was fidgeting behind him , and there was a limit to the amount of time he intended to chat to this crazy woman next to him in the soiled wedding dress and veil . |
| 9 | On August 2nd , 1951 , 48-year old Mrs Mabel Tattershaw was spoken to by the man next to her in the Roxy Cinema , Nottingham . |
| 10 | Twice , when he had run out of ideas , he had driven the little Triumph out of the district to a coffee shop where he was not known , and had sat drinking coffee and talking to the men next to him at the counter , surprised to find himself accepted as a member of the grown-up world . |
| 11 | I was only half-aware of a looming presence next to me at the bar , until he joined in our conversation : |
| 12 | As she watched he draped the shirt next to hers by the fire before squatting down opposite her . |